>> Candis: “Presidential hopeful Ted Cruz worried transgendered kids might molest his daughters in the shower."
>> Kate: Holy (bleep).
>> Candis: "The Republican senator opposes basic equality for transgender people."
>> Ella: Oh.
>> Jenny: There is a movement among some conservatives against LGBT people, and of late, trans people in particular. I'm thinking of the Houston thing, for instance. In Houston, an act called "The HERO Act," which guaranteed equality not just for LGBT people, but for all people, was in fact, repealed. There was a campaign for the repeal of "The HERO Act" that was run by a group of ministers and it was run, um, largely by conservative Republicans. The tactic that was used against our community was the threat that there would be sick men preying upon our children in restrooms.
>> Woman: Any man at anytime could enter a woman's bathroom simply by claiming to be a woman that day. No one is exempt. Even registered sex offenders. Protect women's privacy, prevent danger, vote no on the Proposition 1 bathroom ordinance. It goes too far.
>> Jenny: It was shocking. It was a lie, and it happened to work.
It happened to work, because it was anything but a lie. The idea that sex offenders would use the bat-excrement crazy ideas of radical leftists, which would allow biological men to legally enter women’s bathrooms, is not just not insane, it’s happened. As it did here, and in other places.
Of course, the mere mention of this would illicit massive eye-rolling amongst the Rainbow Jihad, who would be quick to call this an isolated incident, and not cause for sweeping legislation. Or, additional laws.
But, of course, an attempted shoe-bombing of an American airliner was also an “isolated incident,” and it’s pretty much completely transformed (and by transformed I mean made much, much worse) the traveling experience of hundreds of millions of people.
So sorry, there is quite the precedent for people using isolated examples and, in this case, the powers of raw common sense to try to keep people safe.